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• Harbinger (Noun):
English Meaning: A sign that shows that something is going to happen soon, often something bad.
Bangla Meaning: অগ্রদূত, The cuckoo is a harbinger of spring.

• Synonyms: Omen (লক্ষণ), Sign (আলামত/ চিহ্ণ) Precursor(পূর্বাভাস) Signal (প্রতীক), Forerunner (অগ্রদূত)।

• Antonyms: Postdate (পরবর্তী সময়) Result (ফলাফল), Illuminate (আলোকিত করা, সন্দেহের অবসান), (পরবর্তী), End (শেষ), Finish (সমাপ্তি)।

• Other Forms: Harbinger (Verb)- Foreshadow or presage.

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• Hone (noun):
English Meaning:
- To develop and improve something, especially a skill, over a period of time.
Bangla Meaning: শান (-পাথর), পাথরে ঘষে ধার দেওয়া।

Enthrall (Verb transitive):
English Meaning: ​If something enthralls you, it is so interesting, beautiful, etc. that you give it all your attention.
Bangla Meaning:
- বিমুগ্ধ করা।

Fervid (adjective):
English Meaning: Feeling something too strongly; showing feelings that are too strong.
Bangla Meaning: উদ্দীপ্ত; ঐকান্তিক।

• Example Sentence:
1. The cuckoo is a harbinger of spring.
2. It was not a harbinger; it was a clear symptom of the move from a bipolar to a unipolar world.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Jocular (adjective):
English Meaning:
- humorous.
- enjoying making people laugh.
Bangla Meaning: রসিকতাপ্রিয়, রসিক।

• Synonyms:
- Cheerful (আনন্দমুখর),
- Jolly (প্রফুল্ল),
- Jovial (উৎফুল্ল),
- Amusing (চিত্তাকর্ষক),
- Comic (হাস্যকর)।

• Antonyms:
- Serious (গুরুগম্ভীর),
- Humourless (রসহীন),
- Gloomy (বিষণ্ন),
- Depressed (হতাশ),
- Demoralized (অবদমিত)।

• Other Forms:
- Jocularly (adverb).
- Jocularity (noun).

• Other Option:
• Far and away
English Meaning: by a very large amount.
Bangla Meaning: খুবই বেশি মাত্রায় / অতুলনীয়।
• Gain ground
English Meaning: become more popular or accepted / to make progress.
Bangla Meaning: জনপ্রিয় হওয়া বা গ্রহণযোগ্যতা পাওয়া / অগ্রসর হওয়া; উন্নতি করা।
• Half a chance
English Meaning: the slightest opportunity.
Bangla Meaning: ক্ষীণতম সুযোগ / কিছু সুযোগ।

• Example Sentence:
1. She explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem.
2. She sighed and turned her head to look behind her and gave him a jovial smile.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Glean (verb intransitive), (verb transitive):
English Meaning: To obtain information, knowledge, etc., sometimes with difficulty and often from various places.
Bangla Meaning: ফসল তোলার পর মাঠে পড়ে থাকা শস্যদানা খুঁটে তোলা, ফসল কুড়ানো।

• Synonyms:
- Extract (টেনে বের করা বা একত্রে রাখা),
- Gather (একত্রিত করা),
- Collect (সংগ্রহ করা),
- Amass (জড়ো করা বা জমানো)
- Pick (গোছানো)।

• Antonyms:
- Disperse (সবদিকে ছড়িয়ে দেয়া),
- Divide (ভাগ করা),
- Spread (ছড়ানো),
- Scatter (বিক্ষিপ্ত করা),
- Disseminate (ছড়িয়ে দেয়া)।

• Other Forms:
- Gleaner (noun) (ফসল/খবর) কুড়ানি।
- Gleanings (noun) (plural) (সাধারণত লাক্ষণিক) বিভিন্ন উৎস থেকে আহরিত টুকরা জ্ঞানের কথা।

• Example Sentence:
1. These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies.
2. They were not to glean their fields for stray grain, nor harvest the corners.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Haughty (adjective):
English Meaning: Behaving in an unfriendly way towards other people because you think that you are better than them.
Bangla Meaning: উদ্ধত; অহংকারী।

• Example Sentence:
1. He replied with haughty disdain.
2. This office is controlled by haughty aristocrats.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Pedant (noun):
English Meaning: A person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching.
Bangla Meaning: যে ব্যক্তি পুঁথিগত বিদ্যা ও নিয়ম অনুশাসনের বিষয়ে অত্যন্ত কঠোর, গোঁড়া স্কুলশিক্ষক।

• Synonyms:
- Bookworm (বইপোকা),
- Egghead (জ্ঞানী),
- Scholastic (পন্ডিত),
- Intellectual (বুদ্ধিজীবী),
- Pedagogue (শিক্ষাগুরু)।

• Antonyms:
- Idiot (মাথামোটা),
- Moron (নির্বোধ),
- Blockhead (বোকা),
- Stupid (গর্দভ),
- Foolish (বোকা)।

• Other Forms:
- Pedantry (noun) [Uncountable noun] ক্লান্তিকর ও অপ্রয়োজনীয় পণ্ডিতিপনা; আনুষ্ঠানিকতা বিষয়ে অতিরিক্ত মনোযোগী, [Countable noun] এ ধরনের মনোযোগের বিষয়।
- Pedantic (adjective) পণ্ডিতি মনোভাবসুলভ।
- Pedantically (adverb).

• Example Sentence:
1. A pedant will always insist that you ask for ‘fewer’ items rather than ‘less’.
2. A pedant might ask if you really mean rocket propellants when you say rocket fuel.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Lope (verb intransitive):
English Meaning: A way of running with long relaxed steps.
Bangla Meaning: (খরগোশের মতো) লাফিয়ে লাফিয়ে চলা।।

• Synonyms:
- Bounce (তিড়িং লাফ),
- To Jump (লাফানো),
- Gallop (দ্রুতগতিতে অগ্রসর হওয়া),
- Trot (দুলকি চাল),
- Canter (আস্তে আস্তে যাওয়া)।

• Antonyms:
- Crawl (হামাগুড়ি দেয়া),
- Slow (ধীরে অগ্রসর হওয়া),
- Halt (থামা),
- Creep (হামাগুড়ি),
- Walk (হাঁটা)।

• Other Forms: (noun) এরকমের উল্লম্ফন।

• Example Sentence:
1. He gestured to his friend to hurry over, and Hank broke into a lope.
2. He sets off at a measured lope, headed toward the Great Divide, headed east.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Wile (noun):
English Meaning: The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Bangla Meaning: (সাধারণত plural) কূটকৌশল, চাতুরী, শয়তানি।

• Synonyms:
- Trickery (ছলচাতুরী করা),
- Cunning (কূটকৌশল),
- Cheating (ধান্দাবাজি),
- Artifice (চালাকি),
- Betraying (প্রতারণা করা)।

• Antonyms:
- Frankness (নির্ভীকতা),
- Honesty (সততা),
- Openness (স্বচ্ছতা),
- Candidness (সরলতা),
- Straightness (অকপটতা)।

• Other Forms:
- Denigration [ডেনিগ্রেইশ্‌ন্‌] (noun) মানহানি; কালিমা লেপন।

• Example Sentence:
1. His wit and wile has made him one of the sharpest politicians in the Cabinet.
2. The wiles of the Devil. She fell a victim to the wiles of that unscrupulous rogue.

• Other Option:
- Lope: A way of running with long relaxed steps.
- Wag: To shake your head from side to side.
- Slake: To drink so that you no longer feel thirsty.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Pariah (noun) [uncountable noun]:
English Meaning: A person who is not acceptable to society and is avoided by everyone.
Bangla Meaning: (ভারত) নিচু জাতের লোক; অস্পৃশ্য লোক; (লাক্ষণিক) সমাজচ্যুত ব্যক্তি।

• Synonyms:
- Outcast (সমাজচ্যুত),
- Outsider (বহিরাগত, আগন্তক),
- Exile (নির্বাসিত),
- Vagabond (ভবঘুরে)।

• Antonyms:
- Friend (বন্ধু),
- Insider (ঘরের লোক),
- Included (অন্তর্ভুক্ত),
- Loved (প্রিয়),
- Favorite (প্রিয়)।

• Other Forms: Pariah-dog (noun) (ভারত) মালিকহীন মিশ্রজাতের কুকুর।

• Example Sentence:
1. In this modern age of cynicism and celebrity the road from pariah to popularity is a short one.
2. In this modern age of cynicism and celebrity the road from pariah to popularity is a short one.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Ostentation (noun):
English Meaning: An exaggerated display of wealth, knowledge or skill that is made in order to impress people.
Bangla Meaning: প্রশংসালাভ বা ঈর্ষা জাগ্রত করার জন্য (বিত্ত, বিদ্যা, দক্ষতা ইত্যাদির) প্রদর্শন: The ostentation of the newly rich.

• Synonyms:
- Display(প্রদর্শনেচ্ছা্),
- Boast (লোক দেখানো),
- Brag (বড়াই),
- Fuss (হড়বড়ি),
- Bluster (তর্জন-গর্জন)।

• Antonyms:
- Modesty (নম্রতা),
- Simplicity (সরলতা),
- Concealment (সৌজন্যতা, ঢেকে রাখা),
- Humbleness (বিনয়),
- Dullness (নিস্তেজতা)।

• Other Forms: Ostentate (Verb).

• Example Sentence:
1. The house was spacious but without any trace of ostentation.
2. ‍She is a charming host without any touch of stiffness or ostentation.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Wag (verb transitive), (verb intransitive):
English Meaning:
- Wag (something) if a dog wags its tail, or its tail wags, its tail moves from side to side several times.
- To shake your finger or your head from side to side or up and down, often because you do not approve of something.
Bangla Meaning: (wagged, wagging, wags) (লেজ ইত্যাদি) নড়া, নাড়া: a wagging tail.

• Synonyms:
- Shake (নাড়ানো),
- Nod (মাথা ঘুরানো),
- Waggle (আলোড়ন),
- Release (মুক্তি)।

• Antonyms:
- Be still (অবিচল),
- Freeze (স্থির),
- Suspend (সাসপেন্ড)।

• Other Forms:
- Wag (noun).রসিক/আমুদে/ফুর্তিবাজ/রগুড়ে লোক।
- Waggish [ওয়্যাগিশ্] (adjective) রগুড়ে/আমুদে, সকৌতুক: wagish remarks/tricks.
- Waggishly (adverb) পরিহাসচ্ছলে, রগড়চ্ছলে ইত্যাদি।

• Example Sentence:
1. Just remember what I said,’ she repeated, wagging her finger at him.
2. The happy dog wagged his tail.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Rabble (noun):
English Meaning:
- A large group of noisy people who are or may become violent.
- Ordinary people or people who are considered to have a low social position.
Bangla Meaning: উচ্ছৃঙ্খল জনতা।

• Synonyms:
- The Masses (সাধারণ জনতা),
- Mob (ভীড়, সাধারণ লোক),
- Public (সাধারণ জনগন),
- Commoners (নিচু জাতের মানুষ)
- Crowd (জনতা, সাধারণ মানুষ)।

• Antonyms:
- Aristocracy (সম্ভ্রান্ত),
- Nobility (শরীফ),
- Elite (বিশেষ সুবিধাপ্রাপ্ত শ্রেণী),
- Upper class, (উচ্চবিত্ত,)
- Chosen (নির্বাচিত বিশেষ শ্রেণীর মানুষ)।

• Other Forms:
- Rabble-rousing (Adjective)

• Example Sentence:
1. He was met by a rabble of noisy, angry youths.
2. The truth is they represent the interests of a bigoted, rich and reactionary rabble.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.

• Coax (verb transitive), (verb intransitive):
English Meaning:
- To persuade somebody to do something by talking to them in a kind and gentle way.
- Coax somebody/something (into doing something) She coaxed the horse into coming a little closer.
- Coax somebody/something (into/out of something) He was coaxed out of retirement to help the failing company.
- Coax somebody/something ( adv./prep.) Police managed to coax the man down from the ledge.
(figurative) She had to coax the car along.
- Coax (somebody/something) + speech ‘Nearly there,’ she coaxed.
- Coax somebody/something (to do something) She gently coaxes them to speak about their experiences.
Bangla Meaning: মিষ্ট কথায় ভুলানো, প্রলুব্ধ করা।

• Synonyms:
- Entice (প্রলুব্ধ করা), 
- Flatter (তেলতেলে কথা বলা),
- Badger (জ্বালাতন করা),
- Lure (পটানো, টোপ দেয়া)।

• Antonyms:
- Discourage (নিরুৎসাহিত করা),
- Repel (বিতাড়ন),
- Disgust (বিরক্তি),
- Admonish (তিরষ্কার করা),
- Caution (সতর্কবার্তা)।

• Other Forms: Coaxing (Noun).

• Example Sentence:
1. He took a lot of coaxing before he agreed to take her to the theatre.
2. He coaxed her into going along.

Source: Live MCQ Lecture.